When I try to run texexec on my context file I get the following error:
texexec va.ctx
/Users/davidsmith/context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/base/ctx.rb:120:in `manipulate': invalid byte ...

I try to reuse this code from fpast (Generating Random arrows in tikz) in context but I found a error message associated with the freelabel() function. If I try to add the labels with label() function ...

I am typesetting books in ConTeXt, and for some reason the first chapter is missing page numbers!
There are correct page numbers in the frontmatter, and correct page numbers in the second chapter and ...

I want to typeset a figure that expresses how some quantity consists of other quantities, and graphically depict that in a table like form.
I have currently done this using a simple table format, and ...

In the first approach to teaching forces are presented to students diagrams with various forces and asked to them to group the forces according to their orientation, direction and magnitude. I often ...

The following contextgarden example from http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Description to produce a two-level description using ConTeXt doesn't work for me. The resulting pdf is as if all four items form ...

I'm trying to come to grips with typescripts in ConTeXt. Amongst all the examples and all the documentation, it just is not clear what is happening.
I downloaded a new font for use with this example ...

I've set up inter-paragraph spacing for a ConTeXt document but in-between two specific paragraphs, I'd like to have some extra spacing. About 1 inch. In LaTeX I'd use \vspace{1in}. What is the command ...

I am typesetting a novel in ConTeXt and I need a way to correctly typeset scenes. A scene in my novel is just a sequence of paragraphs separated from the previous one by two blank lines (though in the ...

I am typesetting a novel in ConTeXt and though I have read as much documentation as possible, I still have doubts about how to do things in a clean and correct way.
I typeset my chapters by using a ...

I am trying to make something like excel databars in context TABLE enviroment. I have created overlay, that should draw the databar, but I can't figure out, how to pass data into that overlay.
Is it ...

How can I put caption for a \starttables? I am using context to generate a pdf with captions on top of tables, which are to be auto-numbered.
I have tried \placetable, but without any success. Also, ...

I am typesetting a novel in ConTeXt and one of the things I was in need was a way of typesetting headers for scenes. A scene as I understand it, is simply a couple of lines which separate paragraphs, ...

I wrote a book using ConTeXt. I used a typescript to define the fonts. When compiled and viewed on my computer, the fonts appeared correctly. I sent my book to a printing place to have them print the ...

I have an XML document which I'm currently trying to converted into XeLaTeX code. I'd like to stick to XeLaTeX rather than move to ConTeXt. However, a problem relatex to the difference in the table ...

In LaTeX, the geometry package allowed me to specify a binding offset (an amount by which the content area of each page was shifted away from the binding) for book layout.
I'm very new to ConTeXt and ...

I'm using columnsets with floating columnsetspans, and I would like to enforce a small amount of vertical space below a columnsetspan and the following text, outside the frame.
Here are some example ...

I read from the official manual (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts_in_LuaTex#How_LuaTeX_handles_system_fonts)
that I need to export OSFONTDIR="/usr/local/share/fonts;$HOME/.fonts" to specify where ...